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41) Late Payments
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A child reports a missing father, Indianapolis's disabled are being killed off, and Lt. Leroy Powder's sergeant is hassling him: just an ordinary day for the cranky cop. Lt. Leroy Powder, the crankiest and most arrogant cop on the Indianapolis PD, is presented with a seemingly routine case: A twelve-year-old kid wants to report his dad missing. But Powder knows that the most complicated cases often start with something apparently simple. And now his...
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A brother and sister's reunion is cut short by murder in this 1956 hard-boiled detective novel by the author of Waterfront and Counterfeit Corpse. After twenty-four years serving with the US navy, Arkansas-native Rex Howard has settled down in Manhattan. He has a private detective's license but works mostly in security. With his work, his navy pension, and a few stocks, Rex has enough to live comfortably. It's a life that's tidy and shipshape. Then...
43) Roses Are Dead
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English
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Hit man Peter Macklin battles divorce attorneys, mobsters, and hired assassins in this action-packed, hard-boiled thriller For years, Donna ignored the guns in her husband's safe, his long hours, and all the cash he couldn't possibly have made as an "efficiency expert." But finally she was forced to admit that Peter Macklin is a killer for hire. Donna wants a divorce, and she wants to take her husband for all he's worth. But she won't get a penny...
44) Mostly Murder
Author
Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Dark, twisting tales from an Edgar Award -- winning author whose storytelling skills will "dazzle you" ( San Francisco Chronicle ). From a local sheriff's casual narration of brutal crimes to a sideshow performer's evil exploits to the tension and terror created by a madman's escape, Frederic Brown's collection of mystery and thriller stories provides a showcase of short fiction ranging from the grim and grisly to the darkly humorous. Discover the...
45) Casino Moon
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A murder draws the son of an Atlantic City mobster deep into the world he has tried to escape from Raised in the Atlantic City Cosa Nostra, Anthony Russo spent his life trying to escape the mob. But his stepfather has dreams for the boy-to be a consigliere or maybe even the capo of his own crew some day. So far, Anthony has stayed away, but one night at a dive called Rafferty's, not far from the glitz of the casinos, he gets sucked into the whirlpool...
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This noir classic by an Edgar Award winner delves into the mind of a criminal: "Close to the perfect psycho thriller... a relentless dance of death tempo." -- The New York Times With innovative style far ahead of its time, this novel follows Joe Bailey, perched precariously on the fence between two lives. He's seeing a good-hearted girl who holds the promise of a comfortably content, if uneventful, future. But he's also passionately drawn to a femme...
47) The Mongol Reply
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When an innocent woman is ambushed with divorce papers, she must learn to fight dirty On the wall of his office, high above Washington, DC, Albert Olen Garfield keeps a letter detailing the Mongol sack of Persia. "There is a great shrieking before us," wrote Genghis Khan's general, "and an even greater silence behind." When he's in the courtroom, Garfield aims for the kind of savage devastation that would make the great Khan proud. He's a master of...
48) The Deadline
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English
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This novel of a small-town reporter drawn into a chilling cold case is "an impressive debut that will keep you on the edge of your seat" ( San Francisco Chronicle ). A dying convict's last request thrusts small-town newspaperman Jefferson Morgan into a deadly maelstrom as he explores a fifty-year-old case of child murder -- a wound his town still isn't ready to scrape open. Under the heaviest deadline of his life, and amid threats from unexpected...
49) Southern Cross
Author
Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
John Marshall Tanner protects a friend from a gang of white supremacists in Charleston In his long career as a private eye, John Marshall Tanner has stared down a great many evils, but even he cringes at the thought of turning fifty. So when the invitation arrives for his twenty-five-year college reunion, Tanner bites at the chance to feel young again. He expects a weekend of nostalgia, but he will be lucky to get out alive. At the reunion, Tanner...
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A double shot of iconic Miami PI Mike Shayne--"one of the best of the tough sleuths" (The New York Times). Dead Man's Diary : Florida private investigator Mike Shayne's in New Orleans at the behest of a distraught wife whose war-hero husband, Jasper Groat, has gone missing--along with his diary, a harrowing soon-to-be-published daily account of being set adrift in a lifeboat with two shipmates. Rumor has it it's also an incriminating confessional....
51) Trap
Author
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Happily settled in Florida, Sonja believes she's finally escaped the trap set by unscrupulous drug lords. But when her son Tomas is taken, she's back to square one ... and Iceland. Her lover, Agla, is awaiting sentencing for financial misconduct after the banking crash, and Sonja refuses to see her. And that's not all. Agla owes money to some extremely powerful men, and they'll stop at nothing to get it back. With her former nemesis, customs officer...
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A freelance agent stalks a shadowy arms dealer in this novel of action and adventure by the Edgar Award finalist... Rebellion is brewing in New Grenada--and the government of Cuba is only too happy to help the cause along. Now, freelance agent Joe Gall has been tasked with heading there to gather intel on Mike Bonner, an international salesman of arms and explosives. And when Gall untangles the truth about Bonner's role in the simmering crisis, he...
53) One for the Road
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A small-town reporter must investigate a murder in a motel -- before he becomes the story -- in this mystery from an Edgar Award winner and "real pro" ( The New York Times Book Review ). Bob Spitzer is a young newspaperman in Arizona, and the owner of the local motel has just called. A woman named Amy Waggoner has been found naked and stabbed to death on the premises. As the reporter and the police chief survey the lurid scene, Spitzer reflects on...
54) Blind Vigil
Author
Series
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing / Independent Publishers Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Anthony, Shamus, and Lefty Award-winning Author A friend arrested for murder. A vicious killer lurking in the shadows. A world of darkness. Blinded by a gunshot wound to the face while working as a private investigator nine months ago, Rick Cahill is now sure of only one thing: he has to start a new life and leave his old one behind. He's still trying to figure out what that life is when his onetime partner, Moira MacFarlane, asks for his help on...
55) Face to Face
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English
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When a popular singer goes from retired to dead the day before New Year's Eve, Ellery Queen is certain it's murder. Luckily, just before she died, the victim managed to scribble out a single mysterious word: F A C E. Unfortunately, no one knows what it means. With the help of a new acquaintance, Inspector Harry Burke from Scotland, Queen uncovers even more baffling clues written in invisible ink. Enter the beautiful, discarded conquests of the dead...
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A collection of novellas and stories from Shamus Award winner Ken Bruen, author of the Jack Taylor series and the "godfather of the modern Irish crime novel" (The Irish Times). An Irishman with an ebullient love of life draws inspiration from the literature and poetry of death. A born loser with an "ex-wife, an ex-child, and no excuses" accompanies his alcoholic brother on a startling plunge into liberating despair. A self-styled vigilante avenges...
57) The Ditto List
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A slightly sleazy divorce lawyer discovers something strange about himself: a conscience There are seven women in the courtroom, and D. T. Jones loves them all. They are women who married young, have been mistreated, and have no prospects, no hope. For them, Jones will do all he can, which isn't much. A cut-rate divorce lawyer, he specializes in default settlements -- no alimony, no property, no fight. He's not good, but he's fast, and his clients...
58) Goodbye L.A
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Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A screenwriter stage dives into L.A.'s punk rock scene to find a missing reporter as Sinclair mixes "hard-edged realism ... [and] humor" in a "fine" novel (Gerald Petievich, author of To Live and Die in L.A. ). Four years ago, when Capt. George Steifer charged screenwriter Ben Crandel with murder, it didn't look like the beginning of a beautiful friendship. But Hollywood makes strange bedfellows, and now the cop has come to his writer pal for help....
59) Big Sister
Author
Series
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Varg Veum receives a surprise visit in his office. A woman introduces herself as his half-sister, and she has a job for him. Her god-daughter, a 19-year-old trainee nurse from Haugesund, moved from her apartment in Bergen two weeks ago. Since then no one has heard anything from her. She didn't leave an address. She doesn't answer her phone. And the police refuse to take her case seriously. Veum's investigation uncovers a series of carefully covered-up...
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World War II hero Davy Fox has returned to his New England hometown of Wrightsville a changed man. When his wife Linda wakes up to find Davy's hands squeezed around her neck, it takes all of her strength to get away. But Davy is more than shellshocked from the war. He's haunted by events of twelve years before, when his mother was murdered by his father, Bayard, who is serving life in prison and had always insisted that he was not the one who killed...
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